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Month: June 2014

Toward a Vision of the Future: 2015 – 2030
There is a historic process of dialogue and negotiation currently underway as the United Nations seeks to define a new set of goals for the post 2015 world. What vision of the future will inspire and drive the United Nations agenda? How will the UN plan to achieve the goals it sets? What impact will these goals have on the lives of billions of human beings? And, more important than anything – how does this involve me and my family? Myworld.en

These are all critical questions that are central to the process of negotiating a new set of Sustainable Development Goals for the future period 2015 – 2030. Right now the Goals are beginning to solidify around 16 focus areas – 16 themes where specific goals and targets will be set. This week the Open Working Group of Governments in the General Assembly is meeting together with civil society and interested parties in its Eleventh Session to help to flesh out the themes and to begin to seek agreement on specific targets.

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It is worth listing the 16 Focus Areas and their major associated goal. We can visualize a massive organizing of goodwill forces in these 16 focus areas during the next 15 years. We can imagine history being shaped as people from all viewpoints begin to organize their lives in some small way around one of these points of focus. Imagine people of goodwill increasingly finding purpose and meaning in their contribution to one of these focus areas. Imagine a future where, during the next 15 years, young people entering into their working lives become increasingly engaged in a vast variety of activities designed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – locally, nationally, regionally and globally. We can nurture this future possibility in our imagination and in our actions. Images-2

The Sustainable Development Goals invite us to imagine the coming years 2015 – 2030 in terms of a dynamic movement towards right relations. The goals will include specific targets to be achieved by 2030.

Focus Area 1. Poverty eradication, building shared prosperity and promoting equality: End poverty in all its forms everywhere;

Focus Area 2. Sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition: End hunger and improve nutrition for all through sustainable agriculture and improved food systems;

Focus Area 3. Health and population dynamics: Healthy life at all ages for all;

Focus area 16. Peaceful and inclusive societies, rule of law and capable institutions. Peaceful and inclusive societies, rule of law and capable institutions

As preparation for the 11th Session of the Open Working Group this week, a Working Document has been prepared summarizing proposals for the goals. It is well worth studying this summary: ‎sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/3686WorkingDoc_0205_additionalsupporters.p

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